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Unexpected experiences: Lucy Spokes talks about the excitement of a newly digital Festival

29 Jul 2020

Head of Public Engagement, Dr Lucinda Spokes, describes the difficult decision to pull the plug on the 26th Cambridge Science Festival in March this...

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Cambridge Science Festival returns for milestone 25th year

25 Jan 2019

The 2019 Cambridge Science Festival is set to host more than 350 events as it explores a range of issues that affect today’s world, from challenges...

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Revealed: face of ‘ordinary poor’ man from medieval Cambridge

20 Mar 2017

New facial reconstruction of a man buried in a medieval hospital graveyard discovered underneath a Cambridge college sheds light on how ordinary poor...

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Tree of life

Cambridge Science Festival begins today

13 Mar 2017

Do aliens exist? Can brain scans reveal our naughtiest thoughts? And what’s the point of teenagers, anyhow? These are just some of the questions...

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Circuit city

Artificial intelligence and rise of the machines: Cambridge Science Festival 2016

21 Jan 2016

The annual two-week Festival, which runs from 7 – 20 March and stages more than 300 events, examines the growing interaction between humans and...

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Wow - it's the Cambridge Science Festival

12 Feb 2015

WOW Cambridge and the Cambridge Science Festival turn spotlight onto women, education and science.

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Dementia: what’s needed now?

17 Mar 2014

A remarkable new project that looks at brain donor’s involvement in brain research and the search for cures for dementia will be presented at this...

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Behind the scenes of cancer research

13 Mar 2014

Cancer will affect one in three of us at some point in our lives, so research into this disease is vital. Most cancer patients will see their doctor...

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Barred Spiral Galaxy NGC 6217

Are we ready to meet ET?

05 Mar 2013

Once only science fiction, astronomers are now finding hundreds of planetary systems beyond our own. Given recent discoveries through space...

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Schools Zone

Student experts at the Schools Zone!

20 Mar 2012

The Cambridge Science Festival Schools Zone takes place next Saturday, 24 March, giving students the chance to showcase the scientific successes they...

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How to Engineer Intelligence takes place at Cambridge Science Festival on March 20, 2012

How to engineer intelligence

19 Mar 2012

“Do we actually want machines to interact with humans in an emotional way? Will it be possible for them to interact with us?”

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Children get hands-on!

Gurgling guts, electricity, snot, pus and blood!

07 Mar 2012

The Cambridge Science Festival Schools Roadshow programme kicked off last week with a Schools Hub at Sawston Village College on Thursday 1 March...

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